IN RE C.C.

No. 08-287.

987 A.2d 1000 (2009)

2009 VT 108

In re C.C., Juvenile.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

November 6, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith W. Flynn, Orleans County State's Attorney, and Alan C. Franklin, Deputy State's Attorney, Newport, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael Rose, St. Albans, for Defendant-Appellant.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, JOHNSON, SKOGLUND and BURGESS, JJ.


DOOLEY, J.

¶ 1. Defendant challenges the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress an ecstasy pill removed from his pocket without a warrant during a weapons pat-down. He argues that the State did not meet the "immediately apparent" probable cause standard for removal of the pill under the "plain-feel" doctrine, an exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. The State responds that the warrantless removal of the pill was legal under the plain...

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